Ibex Trading Co Ltd (in administration) v Walton [1994] IRLR 564 EAT

The Court of Appeal in Spaceright Europe Ltd v Baillavoine and another decided that, for there to be an automatically unfair dismissal under TUPE, there does not need to have been a particular transfer or transferee in existence or in contemplation at the at the time of the dismissal. The Court of Appeal disapproved the EAT on this point.

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Employees who were dismissed before any offer had been made to buy their employer's business were not dismissed by reason of a transfer, or for a reason connected with that transfer, holds the EAT in Ibex Trading Co Ltd (in administration) v (1) Walton and others (2) Alpine (Double Glazing) Co Ltd.

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